c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty." — Susan Estrich
"I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle." — Stephan Jenkins
"It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing." — Herodotus
"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster." — Paracelsus
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you." — Ernest Hemingway
"Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!" — Lauren Conrad
"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again." — Anne Frank
"I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player." — Tim Duncan
"I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'" — Larry Hagman
"And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit." — Bobby Knight
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign." — Anatole France
"In any of the arts, you never stop learning." — Claire Bloom
"I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid." — Roberto Cavalli
"It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn." — Buddy Rice
"Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time." — Michael Bolton
"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." — Kitty O'Neill Collins
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." — Samuel Smiles
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows." — George Eliot
"If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one." — Quentin Tarantino
"Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future." — Francois Hollande
"Only the contemptible fear contempt." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle." — Gilbert Parker
"I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it." — Ashley Tisdale
"But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right." — Ray Stannard Baker
"Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money." — Jerry Saltz
"When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you." — Story Musgrave
"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes." — Thomas Paine
"The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live." — Bob Riley
"I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous." — Katherine Jenkins
"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education." — John Ruskin
"We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal." — Jacqueline Bisset
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." — Malcolm X
"Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself." — Jon Meacham
"I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person." — George Clooney
"We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music." — Alison Sweeney
"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions." — John Hancock
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects." — Rabindranath Tagore
"I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations." — Stephen Fry
"God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." — Steve Harvey
"In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in." — Jason Aldean
"I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out." — Jarvis Cocker
"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!" — Paul Prudhomme
"I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had." — Ken Buck
"Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes." — Harvey Weinstein
"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." — Marilyn Monroe
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." — Anatole France
"You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened." — Brett Favre
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God." — Victor Hugo
"A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant." — Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world." — Chris Chocola
"No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with." — Maria Sharapova
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher." — Dan Simmons
"That fatal drollery called a representative government." — Benjamin Disraeli
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." — Ferdinand Porsche
"As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles." — Adam Sandler
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied." — Julia Margaret Cameron
"I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor." — Betty White
"A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!" — Billy Sunday
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." — H. L. Mencken
"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness." — Hosea Ballou
"I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career." — Florence Welch
"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats." — Pierre Corneille
"My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music." — T-Pain
"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth." — Aristotle
"Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families." — Nancy Pelosi
"And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings." — Stephen King
"Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious." — Stephen Jay Gould
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people." — Philip Zimbardo
"If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires." — Barbara Corcoran
"The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell." — Fareed Zakaria
"I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need." — Michelle Obama
"I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me." — Miley Cyrus
"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something." — Eric Hoffer
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices." — Theodor Adorno
"But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24." — Rachael Leigh Cook
"I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning." — Mario Lopez
"America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance." — Mohamed El-Erian
"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition." — William Osler
"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time." — Marian Wright Edelman
"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul." — Annette Bening
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work." — Jose Saramago
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." — John W. Gardner
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." — Pablo Picasso
"If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled." — Red Skelton
"Good morning is a contradiction of terms." — Jim Davis
"Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal." — Isocrates
"Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights." — Hal David
"Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge." — Hiawatha
"I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it." — Brian Eno
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." — Joseph Joubert
"I never let my politics supersede my manners." — Darren Criss
"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent." — Steve Jobs
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." — Abraham Joshua Heschel
"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday." — George Burns
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." — Serge Gainsbourg
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." — George Bernard Shaw
"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era." — David Hockney
"The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero." — Carlos Santana
"Look, there ought to be politics in politics." — Karl Rove
"If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground." — Lisa Marie Presley
"I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing." — Larry Hagman
"My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers." — Benicio Del Toro
"Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies." — Andrew Bird
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom." — Wole Soyinka
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." — William Penn
"There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her." — Barry McGuire
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed." — Woodrow Wilson
"Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives." — Rick Perry
"I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family." — Elizabeth Edwards
"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck." — Orson Welles
"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination." — Marcel Proust
"I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets." — Tracy Morgan
"I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans." — Kirk Hammett
"I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them." — Samantha Morton
"Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone." — Elizabeth Berkley
"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want." — Paul Walker
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." — Dalai Lama
"There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't." — Doris Lessing
"I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That's really the thing I'd love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me." — Reggie Watts
"People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality." — Henry Reed
"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones." — David Dinkins
"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings." — Oliver Herford
"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service." — Richard Bach
"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon." — Ida B. Wells
"When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world." — Dee Dee Myers
"I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule." — David Icke
"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim." — Dawn French
"Death is an absolute marvel." — William Shatner
"My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself." — Danica McKellar
"I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do." — Jennifer Jason Leigh
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." — Margaret Thatcher
"To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance." — Vera Wang
"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go." — Henry Austin Dobson
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." — Marvin Gaye
"I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women." — Doris Lessing
"A woman's health is her capital." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing." — Jamie Campbell Bower
"There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent." — John Raleigh Mott
"Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first." — Steve Lacy
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it." — Horace
"But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money." — Little Richard
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all." — Winston Churchill
"Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it." — Ralph Marston
"The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'" — Roger Goodell
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." — Friedrich August von Hayek
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." — Albert Einstein
"I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules." — Malcolm Mclaren
"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity." — Ehud Olmert
"But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough." — Elton John
"I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved." — Heidi Klum
"Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new." — Rob Bell
"When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one." — Tim Reid
"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." — Will Rogers
"I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better." — Anthony Kiedis
"Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old." — Amy Klobuchar
"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff." — Emeril Lagasse
"First of all, I try to be a positive role model." — Bruce Jenner
"I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal." — Debra Messing
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." — James Allen
"In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep." — Daniel H. Wilson
"We tried not to age, but time had its rage." — Patti Smith
"I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine." — Beth Ditto
"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop." — Itzhak Perlman
"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols." — Thomas Mann
"Friendship is essentially a partnership." — Aristotle
"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul." — Eliza Farnham
"Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program." — Tony Campolo
"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die." — Xun Zi
"Sports don't define us it is not what we live for." — Michael Wilbon
"Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience." — Kevin Smith
"My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer." — Sam Brownback
"Sometimes - history needs a push." — Vladimir Lenin
"My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far." — Robert Griffin III
"I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God." — Gabrielle Union
"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country." — Lyn Nofziger
"Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride." — Amy Weber
"God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own." — Ted Williams
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." — Henry David Thoreau
"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home." — Hakeem Olajuwon
"Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true." — Lev Yilmaz
"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion." — Desmond Tutu
"My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since." — Hugh Laurie
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." — Garrison Keillor
"Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." — Hannah Arendt
"Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success." — Maude Adams
"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!" — William Cartwright
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." — Samuel Johnson
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing." — Samuel Butler
"The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty." — Bill McCollum
"Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing." — Irene Peter
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." — Max Lerner
"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't." — Laurell K. Hamilton
"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death." — Patrick Henry
"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third." — Kit Bond
"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right." — Thomas Huxley
"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours." — Elton John
"If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do." — Marvin Minsky
"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family." — Alfred Adler
"Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool." — Will Champion
"China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States." — Paul Wolfowitz
"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." — Clarence Thomas
"Beauty is the promise of happiness." — Edmund Burke
"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'" — Johnny Depp
"Manners are love in a cool climate." — Quentin Crisp
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." — Aristotle
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?" — Buddha
"I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education." — Michael J. Fox
"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit." — Chen Shui-bian
"The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school." — Alice Cooper
"9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us." — Michelle Malkin
"Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature." — Ravi Shankar
"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is." — Thomas Jefferson
"If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to." — Eric San
"I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time." — Novak Djokovic
"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure." — Mark Twain
"But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example." — Henry Louis Gates
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends." — Henry A. Wallace
"You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you." — Oscar De La Hoya
"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God." — Saint Stephen
"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." — Billy Graham
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul." — Alfred Adler
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public." — Bryan White
"Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership." — Robert M. Gates
"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness." — Holbrook Jackson
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them." — Sean Connery
"I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen." — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
"People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time." — Hamid Karzai
"Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war." — Bianca Jagger
"I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business." — Gary Vaynerchuk
"I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too." — Nadia Giosia
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique." — Karl Shapiro
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death." — Omar N. Bradley
"I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am." — ASAP Rocky
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." — Henry Ford
"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving." — Gloria Steinem
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." — Zig Ziglar
"But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life." — George Cadbury
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them." — Andre Gide
"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." — Kin Hubbard
"I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for." — Victoria Justice
"I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude." — Joan Collins
"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet." — Nadia Comaneci
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy." — George Eliot
"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important." — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom." — Janet Evanovich
"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7." — Charles Kuralt
"Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become." — Jim Rohn
"With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad." — Jordin Sparks
"As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business." — Rocco DiSpirito
"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism." — George J. Mitchell
"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory." — Orison Swett Marden
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." — Bill Watterson
"My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures." — Laura Benanti
"Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off." — Jerry Saltz
"I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics." — Nate Silver
"Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right." — Nathan Deal
"The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'" — Billy Gardell
"I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state." — George Osborne
"If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else." — Peggy Noonan
"People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings." — Sinead O'Connor
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it." — Hubert H. Humphrey
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything." — Martin Yan
"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent." — Mike Tyson
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society." — Anita Brookner
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." — Dale Carnegie
"A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families." — Jim Bunning
"I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event." — Paula Radcliffe
"Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool." — Jay-Z
"My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them." — George Soros
"There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words." — Mary Martin
"Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that." — Brian Cox
"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large." — Wilhelm Wundt
"It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen." — George Clooney
"I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in." — Oliver Reed
"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table." — Rodney Dangerfield
"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading." — Thomas Hardy
"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it." — Esther Williams
"My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away." — Mark Haddon
"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does." — Daniel Keys Moran
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that." — John Keats
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." — Don Shula
"Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror." — Chris Bailey
"Travel, of course, narrows the mind." — Malcolm Muggeridge
"The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire." — Tom Hanks
"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" — E. M. Forster
"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis." — Yasser Arafat
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him." — Frank Herbert
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages." — Charles Babbage
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom." — Stendhal
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies." — Aldrich Ames